I am spending my time gathering information. You are not seeing any of these articles as posts here, yet. Three hours of viewing micro-film is interesting while it is going on. I have a tendency to want to stop and read articles before I save them. There is a good reason to do this but it increases the time it takes to gather articles. It is difficult to get anything else done on the days when I research the archives. I get so tired afterwards that I zone out ( nap) for hours. I wonder if other people have the same response, or if this is something unique to me. Today I was processing 1932, which was just one reel of micro-film. This is before I was born ( 1942) and at a time when my Father was just 12 ( not living in Worthington). This is interesting to get my head into the world of 1932 Worthington. Today I saved 43 articles on one topic or another. One of the saves was a full page advertisement for Harvest Festival, which was the Fall celebrations name before the emphasis was shifted to Turkeys and became King Turkey Day. Some of the articles are about building the bridge that was on the West end of the Grade. This bridge is now gone. Prior to the building of the Grade, there was NO way to way to go around the lake shore of Lake Okabena. You could get as far West and South as the Fox Farm Road and then have to go West and then South. But you were not going to be anywhere that you could see the lake until you came off the highway and went under the via-duct and there would be the lake and the corner of Second Avenue. Some of the articles in 1932 are on their desire for the lake to be excellent fishing and so they were frequently seining out the bad fish and stocking it with good fish. The wording is mine. Their wording was carp for bad fish. There is only ONE park on Lake Okabena at this time (1932) . . . . Chautauqua Park and it is heavily used. There are now ten (10) parks on Lake Okabena. At least seven (7) of them were either created or improved as a result of The Dredging of Lake Okabena. 1932 is a world before home air conditioners, before TVs, before cell phones and people are out doors by the lake, in family and social groups in ways that are no longer standard living. These people cared about their lake and their ONE park.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:56:02 +0000
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